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Mavericks clinch RMAC West title

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Saturday, April 28, 2012

Mitch Corwin proved Friday night’s big hit wasn’t a fluke.

One day after he came through with the game-winning hit, the Colorado Mesa University junior outfielder hit a walk-off single up the middle Saturday to give the No. 23 Mavericks a doubleheader sweep of RMAC rival CSU-Pueblo at Suplizio Field.

Colorado Mesa (35-10, 29-6 RMAC) won 8-2 and 5-4 to win the season series against CSU-Pueblo with one game left at noon today. Mesa clinched the RMAC West Division title and remains four games ahead of New Mexico Highlands (32-12, 25-10 RMAC) for the RMAC regular-season title with five games left.

“It’s huge, but we don’t want to be lackadaisical now,” Corwin said. “We still need to do our business and get the job done. We’ve been doing a great job of closing games out.

“To have this happen in our favor now is great. It’s great to have it happen in the beginning of the season, but at the end to have that confidence to close games out is big-time.”

Corwin singled home the winning run with two on and one out in the bottom of the seventh inning of the second game.

“Today was an ideal situation,” he said. “You want to be the hero when the game’s on the line. If you don’t want to be the hero, you don’t need to be playing baseball.

“With one out, it makes it easier. You’re looking for something up and he happened to leave it up a little bit. I was able to hit it up the middle.”

Corwin is 5 for 10 with five RBI in the weekend series.

Mesa built a 3-0 lead with a delayed steal and back-to-back singles from Nate Robertson and Braden Box.

The ThunderWolves (25-20, 22-13 RMAC) came back to tie the score and take a 4-3 lead in the sixth with the aid of a Mesa error.

Mesa first baseman Dustin Fackrell evened the score with a home run over the 365-foot sign in left-center field to lead off the bottom of the sixth.